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Natural Resource Management and Policy Volume 39
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Yongsheng Wang William E. Hefley •
Editors
The Global Impact of Unconventional Shale Gas Development Economics, Policy, and Interdependence
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Editors Yongsheng Wang Department of Economics and Business Washington and Jefferson College Washington, PA USA
William E. Hefley Naveen Jindal School of Management University of Texas at Dallas Richardson, TX USA
Natural Resource Management and Policy ISBN 978-3-319-31678-9 ISBN 978-3-319-31680-2 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-31680-2
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Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . William E. Hefley and Yongsheng Wang
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Unconventional Shale Energy and the Strategies of Nations . . . . . . . . . Theresa Sabonis-Helf
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The Politics of Shale Gas and Anti-fracking Movements in France and the UK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John T.S. Keeler
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Shale and Eastern Europe—Bulgaria, Romania, and Ukraine . . . . . . . . Atanas Georgiev
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Unconventional Drilling for Natural Gas in Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robert Dodge
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Shale Development and China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Haitao Guo, Yongsheng Wang and Zhongmin Wang Shale Gas Development and Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Clifford A. Lipscomb, Hisanori Nei, Yongsheng Wang and Sarah J. Kilpatrick Can a Shale Gas Revolution Save Central and South Asia? . . . . . . . . . 171 Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili Fracking in Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 Caitlin Corrigan and Ilia Murtazashvili Shale Development and Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229 Thomas Tunstall
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